Managing Editor

Date Posted	June 06, 2026
Industry	Newspapers
Specialty	General Assignment
Required Education	Bachelor's Degree
Remote / Telecommute	Telecommute
Job Status	Freelance
Salary	Negotiable, profits-sharing included

Description:

Editor wanted: help lead a new printed newspaper, The Junior Times, for curious kids

I'm launching a small, printed newspaper for curious kids (ages 7 to 11), and the mission drives everything: get kids off their electronics and back to reading something physical, true, and hopeful, written and edited by real people instead of machines. You can see the live project at www.thejuniortimes.com. This is a real, launching publication, not a content farm: real pay, a live product, and a genuine plan to grow. I'm looking for one editor to be the backbone of every issue.

What you'd do:

• Assign and shape roughly 8 to 10 short pieces per issue from a small team of freelance writers

• Hold a consistent, warm, smart voice across the whole paper (you'll get a voice guide and an issue blueprint to work from)

• Fact-check everything, especially a short current-events page, because a kids' paper cannot get facts wrong

• Select licensed images for each piece, keep the issue on schedule, and hand a clean package to the designer who handles page layout

Who I'm looking for: someone who has edited before, whether in kids' or education publishing, a newspaper section, a magazine, or something similar, and who can make other people's writing better without flattening their voice. Reliability matters more than a famous CV or resume.

The kind of place it is: this paper is self-funded and mission-driven, not corporately owned, so you'd have genuine room to shape it. I want collaboration and I'm open to your direction, as long as it serves the central mission of giving kids something true, hopeful, and worth reading. If you've wanted real creative latitude within solid journalism, instead of corporate constraints, that's exactly what this is.

The offer: this is a fully remote, work-from-anywhere contractor role (1099). $400 per issue to start (monthly), with a one-time $500 onboarding bonus for helping screen the first writers and set up issue 1. On top of that, a profit-share stake in the paper that begins accruing from the fourth issue and vests over time. This is real, earned upside as the paper grows, not a vague promise, and pay grows with the paper. For the right person who believes in the mission, it's a genuine stake in something built to last. While it is mission-driven, it is for profit, and keeping costs low help us get to breakeven faster and establishing readership/advertising, which leads to profitability.

To apply: send a short note to hello@thejuniortimes.com about your editing background, why this resonates with you, and (if you have one) a link or example of something you've edited or written. If it's a fit, I'll share a sample issue plan and we'll talk.